Improvement in padding fabrics



H. HOWARD.

PADDING-FABRIC.

Patented J'an.4 ,1876.

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N.PETERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. n12

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIS HOWARD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGN OR ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO FRANK R. THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PADDING FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 71,728, dated January 4, 1876; application filed November 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRIS HOWARD, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Manufacture of Padding Material, of which the following is a specification I My invention relates to a new and useful material for padding clothing, 8m and consists in the combination, with one or more laps or layers of waddin g or batting, of a layer of bibulous paper saturated with glycerine.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a perspective view of the simplest form of my padding material, in which a single sheet of paper is inclosed between two layers of batting. Fig. 2 is a section of a pile consisting of several alternate layers of batting and paper.

The preferred mode of manufacture of my said padding material is to introduce the glycerined paper A, in the form of a continuous sheet,- from a suitable roll, between two plies or layers of batting, B B, as they come from the cards. I may, however, introduce the glyc erined paper afterward,by separating two layers and inserting the paper between them or I may apply the glycerined paper on the outer surface of the hat or wad. 1

The paper may be treated with glycerine at any time previous to its application between or upon the bats; and, if desired, the application of the glyce'rine may be effected by means of a suitable roller gntrollers, or revolving brushes or other means, in connection with a receptacle of glycerine'in convenient proximity to the cards, so as to make the several acts of preparing the paper, delivering the same, and its inclosing laps, and their proper combination in the pile, all steps of one continuous process but inasmuch as I contemplate making such an apparatus the subject of a separate patent, it requires no more specific description in this.

The presence of the glycerine causes the paper to havea perfectly-pliable and soft condition, free from rustling qualities, and makes the padding of which it is a constituent a better non-conductor of heat, and a better protector from the weather.

A pile of such batting of any desired thickness may be formed by using a number of 'alternate layers or sheets of batting and paper, as represented in Fig. 2. k

My preferred mode of manufacture is to apply the glycerined paper to the sized surface of the wadding while wet. By this expedient I insure the adhesion of the paper and the Wadding at every part.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the padding material composed of alternate layers of glycerined paper and cotton or other batting or wadding, substantially as set forth.

.In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

HARRIS HOWARD. Attest 1 GEo. H. KNIGHT, WALTER KNIGHT. 

